Was the period 1925-9 really the golden years?

• Stresemann was now in power.
• He made the Dawes plan and Young plan to reduce reparations and form a new German currency with loans from America.
• Cultural achievements were high - new bands, artists, poets and there was no censorship so new material was made.
• Good foreign policies - Locarno Treaties 1925 lead to Germany joining the League of Nations.

BAD POINTS

• No party won majority of seats.
• Unemployment was on the increase.
• Government was spending too much on benefits and health.
• The loans and new currency were dependent on the USA.
• There were still extremes of wealth and poverty in Germany.